Jerry Jones: We won’t keep Saints fans out of AT&T Stadium

[Midswat]

It has been an odd sequence for the Dallas Cowboys this season. During their lone home game, the crowd seemed to favor the visiting San Francisco 49ers. But on the road the last two weeks, the Cowboy faithful in Nashville and St. Louis have had the upper hand.

The trend could continue next Sunday night as the New Orleans Saints make their trip to AT&T Stadium.

After Sunday’s 34-31 win over the Rams, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked if he was going to be able to keep the Saints fans out of the Cowboys’ Arlington home.

“We ain’t going to do that,” Jones said with a laugh. “I got too many friends in Louisiana, and they are already there, besides the ones that came and stayed during the storm. We got a lot of friends in Louisiana. They love us except when we are playing them Saints.”

The Saints earned their first win of the season on Sunday, defeating the Vikings 20-9

 

[Doomsday]

Jerry Jones was asked if he was going to be able to keep the Saints fans out of the Cowboys’ Arlington home.

Who asked such a stupid fucking question anyway. It's a public venue the entire idea of which is to sell tickets, put butts in seats and milk more dollars out of those butts with swag, concession and booze. It doesn't make a fuck which team the butts root for.

 

[Bluenoser]

It is going to be worse then when we play the 49ers.

 

[Iamtdg]

Who asked such a stupid fucking question anyway. It's a public venue the entire idea of which is to sell tickets, put butts in seats and milk more dollars out of those butts with swag, concession and booze. It doesn't make a fuck which team the butts root for.

The Seahawks did it during the playoffs last year to keep the number of visiting fans down.

 

[VTA]

Who asked such a stupid fucking question anyway. It's a public venue the entire idea of which is to sell tickets, put butts in seats and milk more dollars out of those butts with swag, concession and booze. It doesn't make a fuck which team the butts root for.

Some fool who has to validate his salary with noise.

The Seahawks did it during the playoffs last year to keep the number of visiting fans down.

How? A team can deny customers and how do they know who's buying?

 

[Iamtdg]

How? A team can deny customers and how do they know who's buying?

They wouldn't sell to credit cards that had addresses attached to them outside of a certain area.

 

[Doomsday]

They wouldn't sell to credit cards that had addresses attached to them outside of a certain area.

Ahh Man.... I gotta see a credible news link for this one.

 

[Doomsday]

Of course, thinking on it now I can almost see a team like Seattle doing that. They have a comparatively small stadium, without the pressures Jerry has of filling it.

 

[SixisBetter]

Ahh Man.... I gotta see a credible news link for this one.

Here ya go Dooms.
Apparently the Hawks weren't the only ones either.

Seahawks Website Blocks Californians From Buying Playoff Tickets | NBC Bay Area

 

[Doomsday]

Ok, they were doing it via the web, not at the stadium. And for playoff games and the conference championship games back in January, not regular season.

But again, I can sort of see why. They have no trouble at all filling their relatively small stadium with their local and regional fans. They don't have 90,000 butts needed to fill a garish overdone cavern, like Jerry does. For playoff games they probably have to turn away scores of people - just no room for them all.

There's no comparison really.

 

[Iamtdg]

~brushes off shirt and walks off~

 

[Doomsday]

~brushes off shirt and walks off~

Heh.

I found it hard to believe at first, then gave it some thought.

 

[Sheik]

Is there any doubt Jerry shows no concern about this because he knows he couldn't fill his stadium with Cowboy fans?

It's funny because just last year he was telling the media he "wasn't overly concerned with the possibility of fan apathy", but that's what he's having to deal with now.

I hope the stadium is filled with Saints fans this weekend.

 

[Doomsday]

just last year he was telling the media he "wasn't overly concerned with the possibility of fan apathy"

What he's really saying there is he knows the "fans" are idiot sheep and will keep buying the swag, buying tickets, etc. And he's been right so far, through .500 ball since 1997.

 

[Iamtdg]

What he's really saying there is he knows the "fans" are idiot sheep and will keep buying the swag, buying tickets, etc. And he's been right so far, through .500 ball since 1997.

He hasn't been entirely right. It takes selling 40k tickets to the opposing team to sell it out. That much was obvious and will be obvious again at the NO game.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Speaking of the Saints. If we can get pressure on Brees, we might have a chance:

Signature Stat: There was a stark difference between Brees’s dropbacks when under pressure and with no pressure. He was accurate on 92.3% of his passes with no pressure for a +4.5 pass grade, compared to 55.6% and a -1.9 grade when pressured. -- PFF

...highly unlikely though.

 

[Sheik]

Whoa, imagine that, a QB is less accurate when pressured.

Groundbreaking stuff there, PFF.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

lol

But actually not all QBs do poor under pressure. That's the point they're trying to make.

 

[Doomsday]

He's also less accurate away from the Superdome. In fact he's quite pedestrian on the road.

A big Saint fan friend told me that their jumbotrons at each end of the field help him - they show gibberish to the opposing QB, show downfield for Brees.

After she told me that I started noticing, at home he tends to look WAY up when getting ready to throw - looking at the jumbotron?

 

[Sheik]

I think your friend is full of shit, bud. As fast as the game is, nobody has time to watch a tv, then have time to re-find the field and make a throw.

Tell your friend to stop saying stuff like that.